Jean Bertaut was, to use a metaphor frequently employed in literary history, the 'moon' of Desportes. Like him, he is a poet rather elegant than vigorous, rather correct than spirited. Like him, he wrote light verse and devotional poems, and, as in the case of Desportes, the religious poems are--rather contrary to the reader's expectation--the best of the two. His work, however, was even more limited in amount than that of his contemporary. FOOTNOTES: [192] The list is sometimes given rather differently; instead of Jodelle and Pontus de Tyard, Scevole de St. Marthe and Muretus are substituted. But the enumeration in the text is the accepted one. [193] Ed. Blanchemain. 8 vols. Paris, 1857-67. [194] The term usually applied to him by contemporaries. [195] Ed. Marty-Laveaux. 2 vols. Paris, 1866-7. [196] Ed. Gouverneur. 3 vols. Paris, 1866. [197] Not recently re-edited in full. In selection by Becq de Fouquieres. Paris, 1874. [198] Recently edited in 5 vols. by Courbet. Paris, v. d. [199] Ed. Blanchemain. 2 vols. Geneva, 1869. [200] Du Bartas, always unjustly treated in France, probably from a curious tradition of mingled sectarian and literary jealousy, has not been reprinted of late years. The edition used is that of 1610-1611. Paris, 2 vols, folio. [201] Ed. Reaume and de Caussade. Vols. 1-4. Paris, 1873-7. There is another volume to follow. [202] Here are these celebrated lines:-- Ronsard, qui le suivit, par une autre methode Reglant tout, brouilla tout, fit un art a sa mode, Et toutefois longtemps eut un heureux destin. Mais sa muse en Francais parlant Grec et Latin Vit dans l'age suivant, par un retour grotesque, Tomber de ses grands mots le faste pedantesque. Ce poete orgueilleux, trebuche de si haut, Rendit puis retenus Desportes et Bertaut. _Art Poet._, Chant i. [203] Ed. Michiels. Paris, 1858. [204] He was not a courtier for nothing. He held numerous abbacies, and Charles IX. is said to have given him 800 gold pieces, Henri III. 10,000 crowns of silver, in each case for a poetical offering of very small bulk. CHAPTER V. THE THEATRE FROM GRINGORE TO GARNIER. [Sidenote: Gringore.]